#dark tranquillity

Well, I have news:

This is my collection! (< Read in the tone of that one Kamelot line, "But this is my confession!" XD)

Bands: in alphabetical order, CDs - mostly in order of release of the album (reissues don't count) - except the compilations Decades and Where I Reign for... reasons

Wednesday, January 28: Dark Tranquillity, "Feast of Burden"

Dark Traquillity - The Gallery - 1995

narrowly avoiding every crisis,

you’re mindless.

knowing you’re putting it on..

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Do you ever feel like you’re a wandering spirit?

like your soul doesn’t really inhabit your body?

like your mind keeps drifting..

drifting up, up, up to the stars and beyond, reaching your hand out and feeling the stardust glide over your fingertips..

drifting down, down, down to the core of the earth, feeing the intensity of the heat scraping at your flesh as fire and earth dance together..

drifting through massive caves, filled with turquoise lakes and decorated with patches of luminescent moss..

drifting deep, deep underwater to the unknown places to man..

drifting in and out of this world..

this reality

drifting in and out

searching for your place

when you don’t feel your place is in your body

down, down, down, on earth.

when you feel your place is in the clouds

when you feel your place is underwater

when you feel your place is..

somewhere between reality and a dream.

am I insane to think of such things?

it all comes so naturally…

…

sometimes, at night when I can’t sleep, I open my window and there’s a big ledge that you can safely walk on (my dad has done it before) and I climb out my window, lay on my back on the roof, and look up at the night sky.

it’s beautiful, isn’t it?

I used to go out a lot on my roof, for the stars have been my place of comfort for those hard nights.

I would stare up at them, wishing to know what they were whispering about.

twinkling to each other, sharing secrets in a language that only they can understand.

oh, how I wish I could join them!

floating among them all,

knowing my place

instead of just floating up to them,

and then having to drift back down to earth.

but I’m grateful for it.

I’m grateful how I can take a little break from reality,

and just lay on my roof and look up at the stars

breathing in the cool night air,

until my breathing calms down.

until I feel tranquility.

until I can finally feel

that I’m where I’m meant to be

𝐇𝐢, 𝐈’𝐦 𝐑𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐏𝐢, 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞 𝐏𝐢 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭!

- 𝐌𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐞/𝐇𝐞𝐫 - 𝐈’𝐦 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥

- 𝐌𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚 𝐅𝐫𝐢́𝐚, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐎𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐲.

- 𝐌𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐝

- 𝐈’𝐦 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐒𝐀

𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 , 𝐈’𝐦 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞.

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐮𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤!

𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟𝐟, 𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐬. 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐞-𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞-𝐭𝐨𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐬.

𝐌𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐤𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞. 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠.

𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐞!!